I've just spent a cheerful hour of my time writing a program on my computer that will tell me instantly what the volume of the mound was. It's a very neat and sexy program with all sorts of pop-up menus and things, and the advantage of doing it the way I have is that on any future occasion on which I need to know the volume of a megapode nest, given its basic dimensions, my computer will give me the answer in less than a second, which is a wonderful saving of time. The downside, I suppose, is that I cannot conceive of any future occasion that I am likely to need to know the volume of a megapode nest, but no matter: the volume of this mound is a little over nine cubic yards. — Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See. I think about this whenever I see people banging on about how they built a whole load of infrastructure to keep their cocaine habit AI coding agent from not going off the rails, instead of just sitting down and writing the code directly. (I swear these people have never heard of standard Unix text-processing tools such as sed, grep, etc, nor have they used an editor more sophisticated than notepad.exe.)